Youth-led media in refugee camps: from marginalization to inclusion through young people’s productions

Media play an important role both in promoting social cohesion and in fueling social conflicts. They can generate either hatred or understanding, depending on their content. This chapter discusses experiences of using and producing media with young people living in refugee camps. Through examples found in some of the main camps around the world, the discussion highlights the importance of refugee-led media initiatives and their potential to reach mainstream platforms, with the aim of bringing a useful representation of young refugees to the broader public. Young people living in contexts of protracted forced displacement such as refugee camps are at the margin of society. Through a lens of applied communication research, this chapter brings to light on the role that these media initiatives can play in giving visibility to and developing an understanding of the lives of young people in camps.